- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
By listing the various institutions and entities that exist to distract us from “all the beauty of our lives,” Baldwin shows just how many preoccupations humankind has invented to give the illusion that one can “deny the fact of death.” This wide-ranging array—coupled with Baldwin’s sudden and lofty rumination on life’s fleeting nature—puts the pettiness of race, dangerous as it unfortunately is, into perspective. How wasteful and silly it is, Baldwin seems to be saying, that people spend so much time arguing about race and throwing themselves headlong into “steeples” and “mosques” and “nations” when they could be focusing on…